Progress Report: Focus On Scale Paying Dividends

When Grounds for Health’s current program year (PY2014-15) began in October 2014, the entire team—from the Board of Directors to the staff on the ground—rallied around a common goal: to focus on scaling our programs in order to reach more women with our screening and treatment services.

After three quarters of our program year, this emphasis on scale has translated to an increase of more than 150% for women screened and more than 200% for women treated.

Thanks to a driven group of USA-based and in-country staff, Grounds for Health has already blown past the annual goal for preventive treatments and is on track to exceed the screening target for the program year 2015 (ending September 30).

These initial numbers show that there are many great things to come as we continue our fight against cervical cancer.

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PY 2014-15 Goal vs. Current Figures

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Year to Date: PY2014-15 vs. PY2013-14

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Country-by-Country Breakdown

	Women Screened	Women Treated
Nicaragua	1,544 (+59%)	265 (+137%)
Peru	1,902 (+66%)	163 (+46%)
Ethiopia*	1,937	318
Total	5,383 (+154%)	746 (+233%)

* PY2014-15 is the first year for the Ethiopia program

For more information about specific programs, please visit our Where We Work page.

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A special thank you goes out to our in-country team of Ashenafi Argata and Abiy Semunigus Dejene in Ethiopia, Martha Pineda Guerrera and Cristely Mejia Cordova in Peru and Marlene del Carmen Suarez in Nicaragua. You all are setting yourselves a new standard to meet next quarter and beyond. Keep up the fantastic work!